45 REVELATIONS
I can’t rightly say “Candy” is a step up from “Word Up,” but Cameo’s come up with an equally amazing follow-up, and a second Single of the Month. For fully two verses, with a sprawling bassline the only hint that something strange might happen, it appears as if Larry Blackmon & Co.
45 REVELATIONS
KEN BARNES
I can’t rightly say “Candy” is a step up from “Word Up,” but Cameo’s come up with an equally amazing follow-up, and a second Single of the Month.
For fully two verses, with a sprawling bassline the only hint that something
strange might happen, it appears as if Larry Blackmon & Co. have pulled a one-eighty and delivered a delicately pretty number as sweet as its title.
Well, they have, except there’s more, as you realize the first time a fuzz bass from outer space attack disturbs the pastoral calm. Suddenly, intruding, competing, or even raggedly harmonizing with the semisweet falsetto lead vocal, Blackmon essays a drawling commentary in a voice somewhere between W.C. Fields and Rudy Vallee. Later a third vocal provides additional falsetto or mutters gluttonous asides.